Install VMware Workstation Player on Windows

VMware Workstation Player is the free edition of VMware Product that you can install this Virtualization software in Linux and Windows operating systems, for the aim of guest virtual machine installation, A guest Virtual machine is a complete operating system like your operating system installed on your physical computer.

When you buy a physical computer, you don’t use the complete resources only you can use some percentage of the hardware attached to your physical computer. But you can take full advantage of your physical computer when you need to work with different operating systems and use some virtualization software like VMware and VirtualBox to install more operating systems in one physical computer.

Download VMware Workstation Player

VMware Workstation Player is a complete setup for the guest operating system for Linux and Windows users,

if you are a Linux user and want to experience Microsoft Windows, you will need to buy a physical computer to have a Hard Drive, RAM, Processor, and much more, but in today’s world, you have the opportunity to use the second operating system on your computer as a guest operating system that VMware will help you to do that.

On the VMware Official Page you will have two different setups for VMware Workstation Player if you are a Windows user you have to download the Windows version but if you are a Linux user make sure to download the Linux Version because the Windows Version will not work on Linux Operating system.

VMware Workstation Player Requirement

Before going to install VMware Workstation Player inside your Windows 10, you need to check the system requirement for VMware Workstation Player, because your physical computer must support the VMware Workstation Player system requirements.

VMware Workstation Player System Requirements

Systems using Processors (CPUs) launched in 2011 or later are supported except:

• Intel Atom processors based on the 2011 “Bonnell” micro-architecture (e.g. Atom Z670/Z650; Atom N570)
• Systems using Intel Atom processors based on the 2012 “Saltwell” micro-architecture (e.g. Atom S1200, Atom D2700/D2500, Atom N2800/N2600).
• Systems using AMD processors based on the “Llano” and “Bobcat” micro-architectures (e.g. code-named “Hondo”, “Ontario”, “Zacate”, “Llano”)

In addition, the following are supported:

• Systems using Intel processors based on the 2010 “Westmere” micro-architecture (e.g. Xeon 5600, Xeon 3600, Core i7-970, Core i7-980, Core i7-990)
• 1.3GHz or faster core speed
• 2GB RAM minimum/ 4GB RAM or more recommended

Host Operating Systems (64-bit)

• Ubuntu 15.04 and above
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & above
• CentOS 7.0 and above
• Oracle Linux 7.0 and above
• openSUSE Leap 42.2 and above
• SUSE Linux 13 and above

Guest Operating Systems

More than 200 operating systems are supported, including:

• Windows 10
• Windows 8. X
• Windows 7
• Windows XP
• Ubuntu
• Red Hat
• SUSE
• Oracle Linux
• Debian
• Fedora
• openSUSE
• Mint
• CentOS

For a complete list of supported hosts and guests, the operating systems visit the VMware Compatibility Guide.

If you don’t want to use the free version of VMware you can go for the VMware Workstation Pro

Install VMware Workstation Player on Windows 10

When you click on the setup file the installation wizard will start and that will guide you through the basic installation process.

Accept the License terms to proceed with the installation

Confirm where to store the installation file of VMware Workstation Player in your physical computer drive and folder.

Check for future updates of this software and learn more about VMware Workstation Player’s latest version.

If you want to have a shortcut on your desktop computer to quickly access on VMware workstation Player mark the Desktop Option.

The basic configuration is done now, you are ready for installation click on Install.

Wait for the installation to be completed this will take a while.

You are done with the installation of VMware Workstation Player in Windows 10. You have to click on finish.

After a successful installation, you will be asked for a system restart go for that.

After restart you will have VMware Workstation Player Installed in your Windows 10, click on the desktop shortcut and open VMware Workstation Player 15.

Bottom Line

When it comes to Virtualization, the best choice is VMware to install different Guest operating systems in a single physical computer. You can run as many Guest operating systems in VMware inside your single physical computer for different operating systems, if you have any problem regarding downloading and installing of VMware workstation player in Windows use the comment section below, and we will try to get in touch with you as soon as possible to sort out the issue.